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In 1950, American producer Robert Lippert formed a business alliance
with Hammer studios. Under the agreement, Lippert would provide
American acting talent - frequently shop-worn stars or just supporting
actors who fancied a profitable trip out of the country - while Hammer
would supply the rest of the cast and the production facilities.
Together they would split the profits. Famous for his concern with the
bottom line, Lippert produced over 140 films between 1946 and 1955,
characteristically genre pieces such as I Shot Jesse James or
Rocketship XM. For the British deal, most of the films were noir-ish
thrillers - and include this title.

Directed by American B-meister Reginald La Borg, The Flanagan Boy is a
hugely enjoyable tale of a young boxer whose career is destroyed by the
blonde of the US title, the aptly cast Barbara Peyton. Peyton, whose
short career was marred by disastrous excesses and liaisons in her
private life, is marvellous as the scheming fatale Lorna Vechi, whose
marriage to a doting boxing manager is a sham, and whose sexual
predations draw in most men around her. Surprisingly explicit in
showing female desire (at one point Lorna licks her lips in close up as
she eyes the torso of the well formed fighter, standing all self-
conscious and sweaty after a bout), as others have noticed this is a
film that recalls the similar shenanigans of The Postman Always Rings
Twice (1946). Sid James makes an appearance as the original manager of
the doomed boxer, and it's a film that still bears up well.

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